Building Bridges between Cultural Institutions and Tech Communities: A Collaborative Handbook

What does it take to organize an attractive hackathon based on open cultural data (except money)? What do participants expect from GLAM institutions to provide for them? What kind of skills do cultural institutions need to process data and use related technologies? How do you create a lasting relationship between “hackers” and institutions to mutual benefit? And what can we do better in the future?

Organizers as well as participants, both hackers and institutions, of Coding da Vinci Nord 2016, last year’s cultural hackathon in Hamburg, share their learnings from their individual perspectives and answer your very own questions regarding cultural hackathons and their fundamental constituent, the data.

This conversation shall lay the ground work for a collaborative handbook to be developed and continuously refined in open source on GitHub. Ultimately targeted at GLAM professionals but informed and shaped by direct input of their audience, it shall give specific advice on how to approach public events working with cultural data, from the right way to provide your data to how to build lasting relationships with a diverse community.